The Eldis Blog

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  • Towards change through imagery: women use Photovoice to improve health in the Indian Sundarbans

    8 October 2015
    Photovoice is a visual action research technique through which communities can share their problems, barriers and challenges with policy makers using photographs and narrative.

  • Global health meets genomics: inequalities and politics

    8 October 2015
    Scientific advances in the understanding of genetics and genomics have the potential to generate major improvements for human health in the near future. However, from a global health perspective, the translation of this technology into new medical treatments raises profound international and local issues around inequality, identity and insecurity.

  • Improving the lives of HIV positive offenders in Southern Africa

    8 October 2015
    Kaday Mansaray Sibanda shared VSO's experience with improving the lives of HIV positive offenders both inside prison and on their release.

  • Can developing countries use taxation to reduce inequality?

    22 September 2015
    Bruno Martorano outlines how Latin American tax policies have been successful in tackling the problem of income equality within the region.

  • Who decides where women give birth and on what grounds?

    22 September 2015
    The traditional medical view of risks associated with giving birth sometimes clashes with what women themselves perceive.

  • The Climate Knowledge Brokers Manifesto – the revolution starts here

    18 September 2015
    This blog was first posted on the CDKN website. Geoff Barnard, Knowledge Management Strategy Advisor to CDKN and Chair of the Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Steering Group, introduces the Climate Knowledge Brokers Manifesto and its revolutionary proposals.

  • A post-2015 development agenda that leaves nobody behind must include mental health

    8 September 2015
    The Sustainable Development Goals must not neglect a quarter of the world’s population, argues Nicole Votruba, Co-ordinator of the FundaMentalSDG initiative.

  • Women’s Work and Wages

    20 August 2015
    Women’s involvement in agricultural work is closely associated with the provision of care for children and therefore plays an important part in determining nutritional outcomes. Haris Gazdar, Collective for Social Science Research in Pakistan, shares his reflections on the norms around women’s work in agriculture in Pakistan.

  • Measuring women’s participation and leadership in the SDGs: Beyond women in parliaments

    11 August 2015
    No country has yet achieved equality for women and girls: they are still denied their basic human rights and are denied a full say in decisions that affect their lives. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have real potential to transform the lives of women and girls, but they must be accompanied by equally ambitious ways in which to measure progress.

  • Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers at Work in Indonesia

    31 July 2015
    To mark World Breastfeeding Week, Sigit Sulistyo, World Vision Indonesia, writes for Eldis on the importance of supporting breastfeeding mothers at work in Indonesia.

  • Nutrition and the SDGs

    28 July 2015
    As the UN post-2015 summit in September approaches how does the current draft of the SDGs shape up with respect to nutrition? Asma Lateef, Director of Bread for the World Institute with Jennifer Thompson and Joanna Francis of Concern share their reflections. All are members of the International Coalition on Advocating Nutrition (ICAN) 

  • Nutrition and agriculture in Africa: what role for research?

    28 July 2015
    Although Africa has the potential to produce all the food the continent needs it faces a heavy burden of food insecurity, undernutrition and an increasing problem of obesity. Dr. Namukolo Covic, IFPRI in Ethiopia, writes for Eldis on the role for research in addressing these issues. 

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